News & Views For Week Of April 7 - 13, 2013

Note: I will be adding the freshest news and opinion pieces to the top of this list, refreshing it daily, sometimes at night, somtimes (shudder) during daylight hours. - Rock

• PC Company Stocks Hammered On Thursday
• Front Running The Fed With TBTF Insider Trades
• Australia: Hits 3 Year High In Unemployment
• Takata Air Bag Recall Affects 3.4 Million Late Model Honda, Nissan & Toyota Cars
• Charles Hugh-Smith explains, with charts, which European small depositors will be shaken down next
• Goldman Sachs Takes The Opposite Trade Of What It Is Selling It's Clients (Muppets)  . . . Again: Buys Gold, Sells Bonds, Tells Clients To Do The Opposite
• First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) Blows Away Analyst's Expectations, Sees Very Bright 2013 through 2015, causing stock to jump 31.28% yesterday
• 4.2 Million Borrowers To Receiving Payments This Friday of $300 to $125,000 From 13 Firms Who Botched Foreclosures
• Student Loan Rates Boost Government Profit As Debt Damps Economy 
• Kyle Bass takes way out of the money bets against Japanese Government Bonds: "The investors ran the other way from the central bank, they didn’t run with it. I find that to be fascinating.”
• Natural Gas Reserve Estimates Upped Again For The USA
• The Big Picture: Ugly Chart Contest
• Matt Taibbi: The Growing Sentiment on the Hill For Ending 'Too Big To Fail'
• Auto sales for March highest since 2007

Which Hi-Tech Companies Sell Spyware To Torturing Dictators?

That Toxic Soup You Breathe In When You Buy A New Car

South Sudan Shuts Down All Oil Production And Picks Fight With Sudan Words Over Oil Transport Through Sudanese Oil Pipeline

Monsanto Found Guilty Of Chemical Poisoning In France

Oil Giants Commit Ecocide In Nigeria For Over One Generation: Current 1400F Degree Oil Fire In Its Second Month


Cuba ready to start commercial oil drilling

Peter Schiff: "It Ain't Money If I Can't Print It"

Business Insider: 40 Facts That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out

Mish: Retail Sales Laugh of the Day: "Falling Gas Prices Held Back Retail Sales"; Weakest Performance Since July 2010 ; Auto Sales Mirage

Dollar Weakens After S&P Says May Lower U.S. AAA Rating; Franc Strengthens

Cisco to cut 10,000 jobs so it can raise profit margins?

St. John's River, Florida Water Management facing 130 employee layoff

The NBA lays 114 employees, but says it was not due to the lockout

Salon: Eric Cantor is the most dangerous whiner in America

67% of all Americans favor raising the debt ceiling while taxing the wealthy and corporations more

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for September 2, 2010

Apple TV: It's the Content, Stupid

Personal Bankruptcy Filings: Down from July, Up from August 2009

PC World (video) -Apple's New iPods, iTunes and Apple TV: A Visual Tour

Netflix rolls out free app for Apple iPhone, iPod Touch

Auto sales in the USA are the worst since 1983

Yen Gains as Australia Surplus Shrinks, U.S. Stock Futures Fall

Deutsche Bank: 10 Recession Signals Splashing Cold Water On Yesterday's Euphoria

China Stocks Advance for First Time in Three Days After U.S. Factory Data

U.S. manufacturing grows again in August for 13th straight month

U.S. MBA Mortgage Applications Index Increases for Fifth Week

Looking for home sales to increase? Don't hold your breath

Treasuries Rise on Speculation Report to Show Home Sales Slid

Does Vancouver B.C. Have A Housing Bubble Similar To The One Just Burst In The USA?

The Muddle Years – Why the California economy is destined for years of slow growth and declining home values. 10 charts showing California still deep in recession and no state budget as we enter September.

Little Support Shown For New Housing Tax Credit

Last Remaining Hopes Crushed, Homedebtors Defend Home Ownership

The Ancillary Costs Of The Housing Bubble

For Case-Shiller Housing Prices, October Is The "Witching Hour"

Financial Armageddon: Another Installment Of "Scenes From A V-Shaped Recovery"

Recession slams workers' pay

Delta Airline plans on axing over 1/2 of its aging fleet; hundreds of jobs to be cut

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for September 1, 2010

European Stocks Gain on China Manufacturing; U.S. Futures Climb

Barron's: Retail Stocks Headed For A Markdown

Emirates, Biggest Airlines In The World For International Traffic, Seeks $28 Billion Through 2017 To Keep Expanding

A Century Later, Teddy Roosevelt's Speech On Corporate Power

Wall Street Turns On President Obama

Nikkei edges up after 16-mth low, China PMI a boost

Exports Lift Agriculture, Bright Spot in Economy

Patent Reveals Sirius XM's Satellite Radio 2.0 Possibilities

Why The Stumulus Isn't Stimulating

Here's Why Gold Is A Safe Investment Despite Record Highs

JPMorgan Is Shutting Down All Prop Trading Desks

Lehman Derivatives Records a `Mess,' Barclays Executive Says

Wall Street Insiders Want Out, Selling $100 Million in Stock

Bad News in Housing Weighs Heavily on Banks and Builders

Minutes from August 10th FOMC Meeting Reveal Fed Sees "Quite Soft" Housing Market

Existing Home Inventory declines slightly in August

Housing Quagmire: Is It Time To Remove Relief?

Home Prices Have Further to Fall

The Last Hurrah For Housing

Slashing jobs pays off ... if you're sitting in the executive suite

Good news? U.S. planned layoffs in Aug hit 10-year low

186 People To Lose Jobs At Baptist Medical Center In Jackson, MS

47 Pink Slips At Memorial Hospital In Gulfport, MS

BAE in Aiken, SC lays off 45 workers

Business/Economic News for 4 May 10